The Never - Never Nest എന്ന പാഠത്തിലെ കൂടുതല്‍ ചോദ്യങ്ങളും ഉത്തരങ്ങളും (Class 10)

1. Prepare a review of the drama ‘The Never - Never Nest’.
The play ‘The Never-Never Nest’ tells us about the merits and demerits of buying things on hire purchase basis. Jack and Jill newly married couple. They are attracted by the hire purchase system. So they buy all the domestic luxuries including their house and a car on installment basis. In fact even their baby did not fully belong to them. It was pledged to the hospital where it was born and had not made full payment of the hospital bill. The system encourages extravagance and the habit of taking loans. The writer may mean that the installment system benefits the low-income group to buy essential articles. At the same time he stresses on the fact that one should not be irresponsible in getting things on installment. It may lead to one’s financial ruin. The play teaches us the moral lesson that one should learn to balance one’s income and expenditure.
2.  Prepare the character sketch of Aunt Jane
Aunt Jane is one of the major characters in the one-act play ‘The Never-Never Nest’. Her words and actions make the play humorous and interesting. She appears to be a lady with a generous and philanthropic mind. She loves her nephew Jack and his wife Jill very much and shows much concern in their well-being. Aunt Jane had given Jack and Jill a gift-cheque for two hundred pounds at the time of their wedding. Now she doubts whether it was really two hundred pounds or by mistake she had written two thousand! The reason is that now when she visits their house and sees their comfortable and luxurious life with all modern facilities, she cannot just believe it. Jack and Jill have a cosy and luxurious house with all facilities like refrigerator, radio, all furniture, piano, car, etc. They say that their house is not on rent, but they own it. But when she realizes that they own them all by the hire-purchase system, she disapproves the way of using others’ things as theirs. She even refuses to sit on the furniture and travel in their car because she believes that these things actually belong to someone else. She proclaims that her motto is to buy thing by paying down, and she dislikes owing a penny to others. She feels restless and wants to leave the house immediately as she believes it belongs to some Mr. Serge or Marks and Spencer. But even when she leaves bidding good bye to Jack and Jill displeased in their way of life, she doesn’t hesitate to help them with a cheque for ten pounds.